Presidencies sometimes change course — Trump’s hasn’t so far. There is no Trump pivot, and there never will be: Boy, the “new Trump” sure disappeared fast. Jay Rosen on normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer. Is Trump mentally ill, or is America? Carlos Lozada reviewsThe Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, ed. Bandy X. Lee (and more); Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump by Allen Frances, and Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen. What makes Trump so dangerous?

Donald Trump’s allies join his crusade against the NFL. “How dare the guy I supported after he pissed on women, immigrants, and Muslims for a year straight do the same to my people?” Life in the NFL has always been harder for outspoken liberals: The league’s conservative culture has long sparked blowback against them. How ESPN became a conservative cause: Conservative media has seen ESPN’s business problems through the prism of politics — but the network’s struggles are much more straightforward.